December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 46m
English

Virtues are not the stuff of saints and heroes. They are tools for the art of living.1
—KRISTA TIPPETT
For 10,000 years, it has been only humans who have learned to thrive in diverse climates that range from the Artic to the Amazon even though we aren’t faster and stronger than other species. Physician, sociologist, and Yale professor Nicholas Christakis has asserted that human progress results from cultures defined by components of the “social suite”: friendship, cooperation, and social learning. Christakis’s research on shipwrecks between 1552 and ...
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